Director, Product Management for Privacy

Director, Product Management for Privacy

We are looking for a Director of Product Management to oversee our platform’s complex controls for user privacy and regulations. The GDPR, ePrivacy, and other regulations are changing the foundations of our industry, and we need a leader who understands both these regulations and our clients’ needs to build differentiated products. The Director will own the product roadmap, articulate and validate customer and regulatory needs, lead engineering teams in development, and ensure our products are successful in market.

About the team:

The AppNexus Product Management team plays an integral role in our company mission: creating a better Internet. Our product managers are systems thinkers who work cross-functionally to make great things happen for the business and our customers. We engage deeply and regularly with users, customer decision-makers, partners, and our customer-facing organizations to identify and validate the opportunities that we pursue. Serving as the critical bridge between our technology and our business, we engage with nearly every part of AppNexus, from our sales and services teams to engineering, marketing, and design. We are encouraged to experiment, build, fail fast, and think creatively and holistically in order to create game changing advertising technology innovations.

About the job:

Work closely with Engineering and Privacy to develop and implement solutions for privacy requirements and policies. These implementations should advance compliance with legal forms of data use and business use of data.

Collaborate with engineering leaders, privacy leaders and their teams through all stages of product development. Understand the cost implications of product decisions and seek opportunities to make your product area painless and cost-effective to develop and maintain.

Align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and ensure that data use meets established regulatory compliance needs.

Create new uses of personal data with our internal teams to ensure they employ privacy features.

Analyze, design and program software enhancements for new data streams to develop technical solutions and systems that preserve and improve privacy protections.Mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks, including the use of data anonymization, pseudonimization and encryption.

Work with Internal Audit and Privacy to perform regular privacy assessments of operational processes, identifying, and mitigating risks across the company through effective tools, training and guidance

Periodic travel to Europe will be necessary (1-2 times per quarter).

About your skills and experience:

Domain expertise in digital advertising and Privacy by Design principles. Experience with real-time ad exchanges such as DSPs, DMPs, SSPs, etc. is a strong plus.

Experience partnering with privacy and legal teams in building enterprise technology

6+ years of hands-on product management experience building large scale, enterprise level software